My wife and I are uninsured. She is uninsurable because of pre-existing conditions. I cannot afford the $1,500 per month it would cost to insure me. We exemplify this country's problem. On Labor Day, we were in an automobile accident on Interstate 10. Our vehicle was totaled. We were, by the grace of God, unhurt. Had we been injured, we would likely have lost our house and all that we have. Had we been badly injured, we might be dead.
The health care bills before the House and Senate will solve each of our problems. They will make us both insurable; they will forbid exclusion of my wife's pre-existing conditions; they will make the premiums affordable for me. Now, tell me.... how is not enacting the proposed health care reform, with or without a robust public option, good for us or or for the country?
If liberalism means telling people like me and my wife, "Sorry, you'll have to stay uninsured because my liberal principles say a limited public option isn't good enough," then f@#k liberalism. Politics is the art of the possible, and for the liberal, it needs to be doing what's possible for the most good for the most people.
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